CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The public is invited to attend the performance of soprano, Angela Brown, on Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30 pm. in the George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall at APSU.
Grammy-nominated vocalist Angela Brown personifies the ideal soprano. With a charming personality larger than life, she unites opera, pops, and gospel in one sensational voice.
The event is hosted by the Clarksville Community Concert Association; tickets are available online.
Angela’s highly successful Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Aida captured instant attention from international print and broadcast media and catapulted her onto the world’s prestigious opera and symphonic stages. Headlines from The New York Times read: “At last an Aida”, and CBS Weekend News proclaimed: “the future of opera has arrived!”
Last season held new milestones for Angela when she co-starred in the new American opera, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird in the world-premiere performance with Opera Philadelphia. She returned to her hometown of Indianapolis for the 2014 Yuletide Celebration series with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. She also sang on the newly-released and Grammy-nominated recording of “Ask Your Mama,” composer Laura Karpman’s setting of the poem by Langston Hughes of the same title.
The 2015-16 season includes performances with Asheville Symphony Orchestra, a collaboration with Tuskegee University Choir in a Christmas extravaganza, solos with Carmel Symphony, and a concert version of Porgy and Bess with Buffalo Philharmonic. Angela will reprise the role of Addie Parker in Yardbird at The Apollo in New York City this April and again for Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2017.
A noted interpreter of African-American spirituals, Angela released Mosaic, a collaborative recording featuring spirituals with guitar and piano, in October 2004 from Albany Records. In 2005, a live Christmas concert with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Indianapolis Opera Chorus was recorded by WFYI-PBS and broadcast throughout the United States. In July 2010, Angela was presented in Shanghai at the World Expo 2010 as a guest of USA Pavilion and the United States Consulate. Angela was the only opera singer invited to perform for the USA Pavilion.